Sunday 27th May.

Behind the scenes on the BBC recording of a Ruth Rendell murder mystery. To be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 8th June.

RT @LanguageFoundry: Photos from the 3rd Ruth Rendell Short Story Award Ceremony. #RuthRendell

After a decade as surgery practice manager, Julia Parsons, Doctors star Diane Keen tells us about her decision to leave the daytime BBC1 drama...

A shelfload of top-selling authors were at the annual Hatchard party in Piccadilly last night. Fellow peers PD James and Ruth Rendell sat in a huddle talking, while Rachel Johnson and Victoria Hislop were fixing up when they should next play tennis.

Lady Rendell is a member of the APPG on Social Tourism and asked this question following the recent publication of the group's inquiry into social tourism Giving Britain a Break.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will incorporate social tourism policies, such as the provision of holidays by the Family Holiday Association for people living on a low income, in future tourism strategies.

“Ruth Rendell is one of the great storytellers this country has produced and this is a great opportunity to rediscover her work for television. We are excited to be working with ITV to bring Adrian Hodges’s brilliantly crafted script to a whole new audience, as well as Ruth’s legions of fans across the country.”

After a decade as Dr Julia Parsons in BBC1’s Doctors, Diane Keen is leaving the daytime drama this month.

When a woman is found murdered in the middle of Øresund Bridge on the border between Sweden and Denmark, Saga Norén from Malmö CID and Martin Rohde from the Copenhagen police department are called to the scene.

Christopher Ravenscroft movingly suggests Mr Winslow's advancing frailty as his reserves of strength and money are devoured by the case; while his wife (Susan Sylvester) vacillates between distress at the ruinous cost and delight at the opportunity to update her wardrobe

There are outstanding performances from Christopher Ravenscroft as Arthur Winslow, the father determined to clear his son’s name; Georgina Strawson, as Winslow’s suffragette sister Catherine; and Christopher Villiers, as Sir Robert Morton, the barrister defending him.

Christopher Ravenscroft’s depiction of Arthur inslow’s slow and painful physical breakdown over the course of the case is heartbreaking yet he also nails the older man’s sharp wit and keen brain...

Christopher Ravenscroft (the sidekick detective in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries) plays Arthur Winslow as a chronic arthritic with a caustic wit and fatherly sternness mixed with an absolute determination to see the cause through to the end, no matter how difficult that may be.

In the lead part of Arthur Winslow, Christopher Ravenscroft gives a remarkable performance of a man crippled by arthritis, obsessed with his cause but painfully aware of what it is doing to his family—but there are so many layers and subtle notes to his portrayal that it is impossible not to warm to this fully-rounded character.

ITV has announced a two-part dramatisation of Ruth Rendell’s chilling thriller, Thirteen Steps Down.

It will be produced by Neil Zeiger (Collision), with Alan Moloney (Treasure Island) and Mary Callery (The Clinic) exec producing and Marek Losey (DCI Banks) directing.

An ITV commissioned, two-part drama based on Ruth's 2004 standalone novel, 'Thirteen Steps Down', is now in production. The drama is being produced by Neil Zeiger and directed by Marek Losey with a screenplay by Adrian Hodges.

Barbara Vine's new novel, her first since The Birthday Present in 2008, is an intriguing examination of betrayal in a family, and of those two once-unmentionable subjects, illegitimacy and homosexuality. Set in London and in Devon now and more than half a century ago, it shows vividly how society's attitudes and mores have changed in many respects - yet stubbornly remain the same in others.

Lady Rendell is the latest Labour peer to clash with Black Rod, who is responsible for security at the House of Lords, who some believe has been acting like a “dictator”.

Christopher Ravenscroft will be taking on the role of Arthur Winslow in a new production of Rattigan's 'The Winslow Boy' at the Octagon Theatre Bolton. From 29 March – 21 April 2012.

I had a long conversation with Ruth Rendell about the joys, woes and compulsion of writing, and also about supernatural thrillers. She told me a curious phenomenon - that although she resolutely does not believe in ghosts, she gets scared witless by ghost stories!

The Labour revolt against the Queen’s representative in Parliament grew last night after it was revealed that crime writer Ruth Rendell is the latest peer to fall foul of his iron rule.

His oldest friend in the business is the crime writer Ruth Rendell, who sparkled in a gallery of literary celebs: historian Lady Antonia Fraser (Harold Pinter's widow), model Marie Helvin, fashion designer Bruce Oldfield, royal biographer Hugo Vickers, actor Nigel Planer, theatre publisher Nick Hern... and comedian Arthur Smith.

The youth club he established in his home village of West Lavington meant more to actor George Baker than his entire theatrical career, his daughter said after unveiling a plaque in his name on Saturday.

The youth club set up by the late actor George Baker is to be named in his honour.

Mr Baker’s daughter, Sarah Pearson, who lives locally, is to unveil the plaque at the youth club building in West Lavington at noon on Saturday, after which it will be known as the George Baker Youth Centre.

A tree will also be planted in Mr Baker’s memory.

Names already confirmed include crime writers PD James and Ruth Rendell, who will appear together at Winchester Guildhall on Friday, June 1 for an event entitled Queens of Crime.

Life in the well-manicured London locale of Hexam Place is not as placid and orderly as it appears. Behind the tranquil gardens and polished entryways, relationships between servants and their employers are set to combust.

Henry, the handsome valet to Lord Studley, is sleeping with both the Lord’s wife and his university-age daughter. Montserrate, the Still family’s lazy au pair, is helping to hide Mrs. Still’s illicit affair with a television actor—for a small fee. June, the haughty housekeeper to a princess of dubious origin, is hard at work forming a “society” for servants to address complaints about their employers. Meanwhile, a disturbed gardener, Dex, believes a voice in his cellphone is giving him godlike instructions—that could endanger the lives of all who reside in Hexam Place.